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redheadedfemme Dust Girl, Sarah Zettel [library book, young adult, fantasy]. (I have several of Sarah Zettel's science fiction novels, and adore them. This is her first YA book, and has all her trademarks: complicated plots and characters, and descriptive powers that make the Dust Bowl in 1935 Kansas sound like an alien planet. This book also tackles weighty issues like classism and racism. Recommended.)
Pegasus, Robin McKinley [library book, young adult, fantasy]. (This is a beautiful story, despite its painfully abrupt ending. I'm sure some people will find it slow and boring, but its exploration of a nonhuman intelligence and culture is exceptional. Where's the sequel, Robin? Please hurry.)
Shadow Rising, Yasmine Galenorn [purchase, urban fantasy]. (This is the twelfth book in this series, and I must say, I'm not at all sure it's holding up. I'm beginning to want to read the Last Battle and get it over with. But there's still a few books between now and then, including this story of Menolly the vampire and her wedding-mixed-with-demon woes. Also, we're getting way too many characters here, I think.)
Hunting the Corrigan's Blood, Holly Lisle [purchase, fiction, space opera]. (This book offers a unique twist on the undead--space-opera vampires created by nanites! The story suffers somewhat from a bleak ending, but it demonstrates the author is not afraid to torture her characters.)
The Forest of Hands and Teeth, Carrie Ryan [library book, young adult, zombie apocalypse]. (I've now read all three books in this trilogy, and all I can say is: Don't give these books to a teenager [or anyone] who is prone to depression. The world Carrie Ryan has created is bleak, bleak, bleak. I suppose that's to be expected in a zombieverse--a few billion flesh-eating undead should realistically mean the end of civilization and even humanity itself. This particular book is not helped by the fact that the protagonist isn't terribly likable.)
Pegasus, Robin McKinley [library book, young adult, fantasy]. (This is a beautiful story, despite its painfully abrupt ending. I'm sure some people will find it slow and boring, but its exploration of a nonhuman intelligence and culture is exceptional. Where's the sequel, Robin? Please hurry.)
Shadow Rising, Yasmine Galenorn [purchase, urban fantasy]. (This is the twelfth book in this series, and I must say, I'm not at all sure it's holding up. I'm beginning to want to read the Last Battle and get it over with. But there's still a few books between now and then, including this story of Menolly the vampire and her wedding-mixed-with-demon woes. Also, we're getting way too many characters here, I think.)
Hunting the Corrigan's Blood, Holly Lisle [purchase, fiction, space opera]. (This book offers a unique twist on the undead--space-opera vampires created by nanites! The story suffers somewhat from a bleak ending, but it demonstrates the author is not afraid to torture her characters.)
The Forest of Hands and Teeth, Carrie Ryan [library book, young adult, zombie apocalypse]. (I've now read all three books in this trilogy, and all I can say is: Don't give these books to a teenager [or anyone] who is prone to depression. The world Carrie Ryan has created is bleak, bleak, bleak. I suppose that's to be expected in a zombieverse--a few billion flesh-eating undead should realistically mean the end of civilization and even humanity itself. This particular book is not helped by the fact that the protagonist isn't terribly likable.)
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